Lesson Objectives To understand environmental, legal and ethical considerations of computing To understand the importance of different types of industry standards

Your task Over the next 3 lesson you will be creating, editing and presenting mini movies about a topic relating to the ethical, environmental and legal issues with computing. Each group will be given a different issue and will create a short movie between 1 and 3 minutes long to explain their topic. The target audience is other GCSE students

This lesson This is your research lesson. You must fully research the topic you have been given and plan how your movie will take shape. You could Use a series of still images Edit different movie clips together Create a full storyline

Roles Split your group into 4 2 researchers – You need to research the topic and feedback to your group about the content that you need to include 1 director – You need to lead to group, plan how the movie will take shape and produce a storyboard 1 producer – You need to think creatively to bring the research and the concept together. You can decide who will act/speak/record later.

By the end of the lesson You must have Researchers Director/Producer Researched the topic fully and produced fact sheet Director/Producer Created a storyboard of ideas

Movie Checklist Clear storyboard Informative to GCSE students Props? Location? Actors? Storyline? Editing?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/ict/legal/0dataprotectionandmisuse_act.shtml

Ethics Ethics relates to what is right and what is wrong. Think of 1 rule that EVERY user of a computer system should stick to. Share with the class

Ethics IT systems store vast amounts of data about individuals. If this data is not correct then there may be serious consequences: If credit information is incorrect, then there may be problems obtaining a mortgage or bank account. If an individual is associated incorrectly with a crime, then obtaining employment may be impossible.

Ethics If data is lost or stolen then there may well be issues with identity theft: Following a security breach at an American data broker in 2005, a Connecticut salesman had his identity stolen. The thief bought cars, motorcycles, furniture and other items under the salesman’s name over four months, spending $265,000. The victim has spent over 2,000 hours trying to reclaim his life after having his identity stolen. There are around 10 million cases of identity theft in the USA every year.

Types of Standards Proprietary Industry De Facto Open

Proprietary These are standards owned by an organisation. They ensure compatibility between the company’s products. They can also be used to exclude others from competing with rival products. For example, Apple computers lock users into using Apple software.

Industry Some standards are agreed across the computing industry, many of which relate to hardware. used to connect printers, cameras, mobile phones and other computer peripherals USB used to connect entertainment systems and monitors HDMI standard connector to connect to wired network points RJ45

“in practice but not necessarily ordained by law” De Facto “in practice but not necessarily ordained by law” Some standards develop through common usage until they become accepted as standard.

De Facto HTML started life as a De Facto standard and as it gained in popularity, it eventually become a rule in all web development. Microsoft Word is a proprietary standard, however it has started to become a De Facto standard for supplying Word Processed documents. Now all word processed documents need to be able to write and read doc file.

Open Standards Open standards are publicly available standards that are often agreed by a group of collaborators and are not for profit. In the case of Open Source Software, the Source Code is available in the public domain, so anyone with the time and expertise can make changes. Usually the software produced is updated by a community of developers therefore updates are often regularly available for free and problems are fixed quicker.

Open Standards Some of the most important computer standards include The World Wide Web C# programming language Mozilla Firefox Linux Python programming language